Personalised Learning (PL) & StoryBird Lesson Plan (LP)~

Posted by: syikin787 on: March 6, 2011

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Salam & Hi to all PBEYians… Yes! We meet again in this 7th entry (W08 session). This week, we learn & discuss about PERSONALISED LEARNING (PL)… We had chat session on the Spectrum & presentations of the designed lesson plan using this Personalised Learning approach. And this W08’s task is to design a lesson plan using one of the tools listed in the emails by Ms. Ng. Enough talking. Let’s get back to business!!!

The Tool

~Storybird~

Why do I choose this tool?

1. I don’t need to sign-up/sign-in to use this tool (I hate it!!!)
2. I know kids love stories especially creating & making stories (not lies though!!!) & this tool give them the full freedom to come out with their own~ (cool!)
3. The images are super-cute & for sure can attract kids (even for me-who-is-already-24 😛)
4. “Storybird reverses the process of visual storytelling by starting with the image and “unlocking” the story inside. Choose an artist or a theme, get inspired, and start writing” (super-cool) – get your images & make story of them (How cool is that???)
5. Imagination is BOUNDLESS – kids have lots of imaginations of their own (they can share their imagination here)
6. You can create, read, share with others.

The Lesson Plan

Year: Standard 3

Level of Proficiency: High & Average

Topic: My Friends (Hobbies)

Language Focus: Verbs

Learning Objectives: By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to

• talk about their friends and what do they do
• create and describe their imaginary friends using Storybird
• write simple sentences about their imaginary friends using appropriate Verbs in Storybird

Procedures:

1)Teacher gets pupils to choose one friend that they like the most.

2) Teacher lets pupils to talk about their chosen friends.

3) Teacher shows a chosen story from Storybird. (http://storybird.com/books/friends-friends-friends/)

4) Teacher carries out reading aloud session with pupils.

5) Teacher gets pupils to discuss about the differences between Mike’s friends in the storybird.

6) Teacher introduces the language focus to be learned by pupils in the lesson.

7) Teacher lets pupils to choose the Verbs they read in the storybird & write them on the board.

8 ) Teacher teaches pupils the language focus & asks them to write the verbs they used to describe their chosen friends in the earlier part of the lesson.

9) Teacher shows pupils on how to use Storybird tool.

10) Pupils are divided into groups (each group consist of 4/5 pupils)

11) Each member of the group has to choose an image from Storybird as their imaginary friend.

12) Each member has to describe about their imaginary friend by writing 2/3 simple sentences on each page (5 members=5 pages of Storybird)

13) Teacher facilitates pupils’ activity.

14) Pupils present their storybird in groups by reading aloud about their imaginary friends.

Well, basically that’s how my lesson would be. Pupils are given freedom to choose which images suit to be their imaginary friends & are free to use any appropriate verbs to describe about the friend.

Hope you enjoy reading this post & feel free to ‘drop’ any comment/suggestion~ 🙂